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Daily Readings Resources
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Daily Readings (with audio options): Sponsored by the US Catholic Bishops
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"Pray as You Go" App: Pray As You Go is a daily prayer session, designed to go with you wherever you go, to help you pray whenever you find time, but particularly whilst travelling to and from work, study, etc.
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"Give Us This Day" FREE!! To support our community's prayer, Give Us This Day has made available at no charge a digital file of our periodical, which includes daily Mass texts. Visit GUTD.net and select "Digital" in the upper right of the screen. Whether you have five minutes or a half hour, Give Us This Day supports your desire to pray with Daily inspiration from the lives of saintly witnesses, insightful, relevant reflections on Scripture, and Simplified daily prayer for morning and evening
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Liturgy of the Hours : The Liturgy of the Hours, also known as the Divine Office or the Work of God , is the daily prayer of the Church, marking the hours of each day and sanctifying the day with prayer. The Hours are a meditative dialogue on the mystery of Christ, using scripture and prayer.
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Prayer is our response to God and creates a stronger relationship between us and the Father. We cannot be a friend of God and truly know Him unless we spend time in conversation with Him through prayer.
“Prayer is the raising of one’s mind and heart to God or the requesting of good things from God.”Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) 2559“Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.”Saint Mother Teresaa
The Eucharist contains and expresses all forms of prayer, it is “the pure offering” of the whole Body of Christ to the glory of God’s name (CCC 2643). It is in the Eucharist that
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FORMS OF PRAYERBLESSING & ADORATION (CCC 2626-28)
- Expresses the basic movement of Christian prayer
- It is an encounter between God & man
- In blessing, God’s gift and man’s acceptance of this gift are united in dialogue to one another
- Prayer of blessing is man’s response to God’s gifts
- God gives us the grace of the Holy Spirit to continue to bless us
- Adoration is the first attitude of a person acknowledging they are a creature standing before their Creator
- Our way to show homage to our Creator and King in respectful silence
PRAYER OF PETITION OR SUPPLICATION (CCC 2629-33)- Form of prayer many of us are most familiar and comfortable with
- By prayer of petition we express awareness of our relationship with God
- We are sinners and prayer of petition is already a turning back to Him and away from sin
- Asking God to hear and answer our prayer
- Begin by asking forgiveness
- Petition is centered on a desire and search for the Kingdom to come
- We understand that every need can become the object of petition when we share in God’s saving love
PRAYER OF INTERCESSION (CCC 2634-36)- “Leads us to pray as Jesus did”—we learn to pray as Christ did; praying for those most in need
- Christ interceded with the Father for all, especially for sinners, we too can intercede for others to draw them closer to Christ
- Asking for the needs of others, even those who may have done us harm
PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING (CCC 2637-38)- Gratitude for all circumstances we have been given
- The prayer of the Church that we celebrate in the Eucharist
- Every event and need can become an offering of thanksgiving
- In thanksgiving we offer our thanks to God, as our response to God for all God has given each of us
PRAYER OF PRAISE (CCC 2639-43)- This form recognizes that God is God, and acknowledges that God is who God is.
- Gives us a chance to share in the blessed happiness with all those who love God for who God is in faith before seeing God in glory
- Embraces all the other forms of prayer and leads our prayers to our source and goal: “the one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist”
- First, we must praise and acknowledge there is one, true God, before we can ever speak to God in prayer